Wizards Vs. Lesbians

Jan 26 2025 100 ep. 65 mins 58

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A queer sf review podcast about the emerging wizards vs. lesbians microgenre.

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AN EDUCATION IN MALICE

Jan 26 2025 61 mins

We're dipping our toes into Dark Academia here. This book asks the question: what if your abusive academic advisor was literally a vampire? And the answer is it would be kinda cool. A classic example of horror elements blunting the actual horror, down to a 1960s setting that elides all the worst parts of the era.

THE LYREMOUTH CHRONICLES (BOOKS 1 & 2)

Jan 12 2025 63 mins

This one takes a while to get going - at first it seems like a genderswapped swords & sorcery novel, but it turns out that's only one part of a much larger world. Recommended for Steerswoman fans.

THE MINISTRY OF TIME with Vajra Chandrasekera

Jan 05 2025 70 mins

A book about empire, memory, historical trauma and the consequences of dating your blorbo. Huge thanks to Vajra for suggesting this one and for coming on to talk about it!

BONUS: THE SUMMER PRINCE

Dec 29 2024 64 mins

Our esteemed pal P.H. Lee joins us for a rundown of this charming bit of YA. It's Brazilian! It's Really Brazilian!

THE SCORPION RULES

Dec 22 2024 70 mins

We return to the schools that resemble the prisons for a book that predates the Ninth House but has a couple of startling similarities, including a proto-John Gaius Gen-X godhead.

BONUS: Q & A 4 (100 EPISODES!)

Dec 15 2024 73 mins

On the occasion of our 100th mainline episode we treat ourselves by answering your questions.

KILL LA KILL

Dec 08 2024 67 mins

In perhaps our most controversial take yet, we posit that this anime is good, actually. Your tolerance for breast collision physics will factor in whether you agree.

THE SEEP

Nov 24 2024 49 mins

Helpful alien friends take over the world and make everyone immortal and kind of chill, man. It's a metaphor for something or other. Maybe AI, maybe legal weed. Maybe california in general. It doesn't amount to much.

BONUS: SCUM VILLAIN'S SELF-SAVING SYSTEM

Nov 17 2024 79 mins

We have fandom historian and BL expert Naked Bee on to discuss this extremely charming bit of gay metafiction.

AMMONITE

Nov 10 2024 71 mins

We return to Nicola Griffith to get a more measured take on the lesbian space colony genre, written if not in direct response to Daughters of a Coral Dawn then to books like it. (We know this because of a helpful author's note.)